Valentine's Day - the deeper side

Thursday night, when I was supposed to be delivering brownies, I stopped at Jeanie's. That stop was going to be just for a half hour or so, til I gave up on the Georgia boys, but somehow that half hour turned into over two hours.
Basically Jeanie and I talked a lot. We talked about other stuff, but then of course it got back to Valentine's Day. She found it intriguing that I found Jack intriguing (which, I was right, she does not [that didn't sound right. she thinks he's a great guy, she's just not interested.]). We talked about how much we both appreciated it, and came to the same conclusion - there's no way to convey it to the guys without scaring them. Because while on the surface it was a lovely evening, full of fun and good food and being pampered, it was more than that. It was a feeling of being valued. It was a feeling of being special. They didn't have to invite either of us, but they did. They chose to have us there. They put in the time and effort to put on this lovely dinner simply to honor us. There were no expectations, no ulterior motives. As our brothers in CHRIST, they chose to serve us and demonstrate loving care toward us. Purely as our brothers in CHRIST.
Jeanie and I talked some more, then, after everything else that we had talked about, I felt like we should pray. And so we did. And the most beautiful thing about it was that we prayed for them. We thanked GOD for them. We prayed that HE would be the focus of their lives. We prayed that we would never be a distraction to them. We prayed that they would be blessed as they had blessed us.
As their sisters in CHRIST, we prayed for them. No ulterior motives, no nothing, other than a desire to serve them and demonstrate loving care toward them in the best way we could. No, we can't convey to them what the evening meant to us, but we could do something greater. We could lift them up in prayer.
It was such a blessing. Jeanie and I both felt a sense of this being something special. They honored us with no expectations and our response was to pray for them with no expectation of them ever knowing. Such a beautiful example of what it truly means to be a part of the family of GOD. And it's something the world just cannot understand. I am so, so thankful to be part of GOD's family. And so, so thankful that these guys showed us what that means.